Chinese New Year

This Sunday, me and my amazing friend Kooly went to the Chinese New Year festival/parade held in Central London. The day was just pure awesomeness, to say the least. We took tonnes of photos and purchased quite a few cute items, but I think I will leave those for another time as this post will focus more on the various events that took place that day.

Standing in the middle of China Town :)

One of the first things we noticed there, other than the beautiful decorations, were the many stalls camped at various locations.

This stall owner was really nice to us, and didn't mind being snapped :)

We took some more snaps before the actual parade began~

The parade was supposed to start at 10am, and as we were running a little late we thought we'd missed part of it. It seems our worried were unfounded though, as it didn't start till 10.40 and was still going on for several hours later! Below are some of the highlights from the parade:

After the parade, there was a show being held in Trafalgar square starting at 12 noon. When we got there, however, we were greeted with this...

There were far too many people, and hardly any space to fit them all. Also, since we'd left our homes really early without having any breakfast, we were quite hungry at this point so decided to leave. Luckily, however, there were several other shows running around the area- the tradition fan dance being an example- so it didn't feel as though we'd missed much. 

Also, as we were leaving Trafalgar square, we were bid farewell by these awesome people..

...which totally put a smile to our faces!

Whilst roaming around, we noticed there was this massive brightly decorated tree, with several people crowded around it. There were bags hanging off the branches, with people throwing these small bags at the tree.

When we got closer we realised it was more or less a wishing tree, and I think the image below explains clearly the idea behind it:

Afterwards we spent the rest of the time shopping, watching performances and just enjoying our surroundings. A few more pics~

Eventually, we found ourselves quite cold and tired, so decided to go home. There are a few details I'm missing out, but as I said I will do a separate post for purchases etc, as well as including anything else I may have missed. All in all, I had an amazing time! :)

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